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Ep. 48 - Corbin and the Divine Double

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Pervasive Myth of the Divine Double

In this Mediterranean spirituality the motif is very different. I'm here and I have a self right now or they might say a Sukeh, a spirit or a soul. But it is bound to the Divine Double. And that realization of their interdependence culminates in a kind of mystical union between them. This has become pervasive in our culture. It's trying to break grammar. The true self is something realized through the being mode of self transcendence not through the having mode of inner possession.

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